GLIN==> Great Lakes - Auto-impacted region Conference in Detroit

September 20, 2009

As Brookings Metropolitan Policy program, and our many partners in the  
Great Lakes region focus on effective response to the auto industry  
crisis-- please note an upcoming Automotive Communities and Workforce  
Adjustment Conference -- hosted by the Chicago and Cleveland Federal  
Reserve Banks, the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program,  
and the W.E. UpJohn Institute.

The event is Thursday and Friday October 8-9, 2009 at the Detroit  
Branch of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. For more information and  
to register, please see:

http://www.chicagofed.org/news_and_conferences/conferences_and_events/2009_auto_workforce.cfm

This meeting is designed to help bring independent, research-based  
perspective, program and policy ideas forward in the context of the  
urgent work of federal, state, and local policymakers to aid in the  
economic adaptation of auto-impacted communities -- with a focus at  
this first forum on the workers themselves.

We hope that you will participate and encourage your networks to  
participate in the conference as well.


Sincerely,


John Austin, Vice President, Michigan State Board of Education
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Co-Director Great Lakes Economic Initiative
University of Michigan Institute for Research on Labor, Employment,  
and the Economy
(IRLEE)
308 Victor Vaughan Building
1111 Catherine Street
Ann Arbor MI  48109-2054
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jcaustin at umich.edu